Slugs and Sluggards
PRING flower shows, according to 1YA’s gardening expert, are not the splendid social occasions they used to be, but by taking trouble their organisers could do a lot to liven them up. They might, for instance, have officials to explain to the sightseers the technical points on which prizes are awarded. In the decorative section, particularly, where the judges’ decisions are an enigma to most people, there should be someone on hand to argue from expert knowledge. "You can get a great deal
of fun going that way." The exhibitor, too, must be wide awake, "If the entries close at mid-day, you should be down by 7.30 a.m, These people..who drift in around ten o’clock can’t expect to do any good." There is an answer, also, to the slugs and spring gales that lie in ambush waiting for the week of the daffodil show: flowers open better if picked in bud and kept inside. That prize bloom that is running a little late may be coaxed to expand if its feet are kept in
warm water and its ‘face irradiated by electric light. It may mean sitting up all night with it, "But in any case I never thought of.going to bed the night before the show. You've got to take trouble .. ."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 326, 21 September 1945, Page 9
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215Slugs and Sluggards New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 326, 21 September 1945, Page 9
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